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Nicole Kidman says Oscar nominations get more exciting as she ages

Wed, Jan 25, 2017 - 12:58 PM

Australian actress Nicole Kidman said she was "incredibly honoured" to have been nominated for an Academy Award for her role in the biographical drama "Lion", as the Oscar nominations were announced on Tuesday night.

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[PARIS] Australian actress Nicole Kidman said she was "incredibly honoured" to have been nominated for an Academy Award for her role in the biographical drama Lion, as the Oscar nominations were announced on Tuesday night.

"The strangest thing is the older I get, the more exciting it gets," she said, as she arrived at the Theatre National de Chaillot to attend the Giorgio Armani Prive Haute Couture Summer 2017 fashion show.

Lion is based on the true story of Saroo Brierley, who was separated from his family at the age of five when he accidentally boarded the wrong train in rural India.

Kidman plays the role of Saroo's adoptive mother Sue Brierley, who brings him up in the southern island state of Tasmania.